It was paired with a Darius Milhaud opera, `` The Poor Sailor '', set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, a kind of Grand Guignol by the sea, a sailor returns, unrecognized, and gets done in by his wife.

Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.

The libretto to Armida was by Marco Coltellini the house poet for the imperial theaters.

Again a classic of Renaissance literature was the basis of the libretto by Boccherini, in this case a comic mock-epic by Tassoni, in which a war between Modena and Bologna ensues over a stolen bucket.

This uneven work was followed by another popular comedic success La locandiera ( Mine Hostess ), an adaptation of the classic and popular spoken stage comedy La locandiera by Carlo Goldoni, the libretto was prepared by Domenico Poggi.

Da Ponte would write his first opera libretto for Salieri, Il ricco d ' un giorno ( A Rich Man for a Day ) in 1784, it was not a success.

However the failure of this work was more than made up for with his next Parisian opera Tarare with a libretto by Beaumarchais.

His last opera was a German language singspiel Die Neger, ( The Negroes ), a melodrama set in colonial Virginia with a text by Georg Friedrich Treitschke ( the author of the libretto for Beethoven's Fidelio ) performed in 1804 and was a complete failure.

The libretto was mainly written in early 1927 and the music was finished in the spring of 1929, although both text and music were partly revised by the authors later.

The libretto was performed in an original translation by Michael Feingold ; the production was directed by Alvin Epstein.

The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.

Around this time, he composed individual numbers to a libretto by Vincenza Mombelli called Demetrio e Polibio, which was handed to the boy in pieces.

The libretto for Tancredi was an arrangement by Gaetano Rossi of Voltaire's tragedy Tancrède.

The libretto of this opera by Giovanni Schmidt was in many of its incidents an anticipation of those presented to the world a few years later in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth.

The libretto, a version of Pierre Beaumarchais ' stage play Le Barbier de Séville, was newly written by Cesare Sterbini and not the same as that already used by Giovanni Paisiello in his own Barbiere, an opera which had enjoyed European popularity for more than a quarter of a century.

Edgar failed: it was a bad story and Fontana's libretto was poor.

Puccini completed the score of La rondine, to a libretto by Giuseppe Adami in 1916 after two years of work, and it was premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917.

Handel's 1709 opera, Agrippina with a libretto by Vincenzo Grimani.

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny () is a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht.

* Falstaff ( 1893 ), Giuseppe Verdi's last opera, with a libretto by Arrigo Boito.

* Falstaff ( 1799 ), Antonio Salieri's opera, with a libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi, which is also based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.

* How Is This Going to Continue ?, a novel by James Chapman, presents itself as the libretto to a musical work by a composer whose ( fictional ) entry in The Grove Dictionary of Music is quoted at length.

* Cendrillon ( 1810 ) by Nicolas Isouard, libretto by Charles-Guillaume Étienne

Vercingétorix, his second opera, in four acts, was inspired by a libretto by Étienne Clémentel, mayor of Riom ( Puy-de-Dôme ) and Hervé Louwyck on the Gauls ’ defeat by Julius Caesar.

William Tell (, ) is an opera in four acts by Gioachino Rossini to a French libretto by Étienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis.

La vestale ( The Vestal Virgin ) is an opera composed by Gaspare Spontini to a French libretto by Étienne de Jouy.

Rossini enlarged the work in 1827, this time to a French libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy after the original, entitled Moïse et Pharaon, ou Le passage de la Mer Rouge (; ).

Music by Gaspare Spontini and libretto by Etienne Jouy.

Jouy now turned his attention to literature, and produced in 1807 with immense success the libretto for Gaspare Spontini's opera La vestale.

Parisian audiences had already seen the work, both in a performance by the Paris Opéra at the Théâtre de l ' Académie Royale de Musique and at the Théâtre des Italiens before Rossini revised it for the Paris Opéra, now in four acts with a ballet, where it premiered 26 March 1827, with the title Moïse et Pharaon, ou Le Passage de la Mer Rouge, with translations and additions to the libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Victor Joseph Etienne de Jouy, who would co-write the libretto for Rossini's final opera Guillaume Tell.

The published libretto includes a note from the librettists briefly discussing their adaptation.

Gilbert and Sullivan hoped to forestall further " copyright piracy " by mounting the first production of their next opera in America, before others could copy it, and by delaying publication of the score and libretto.

The Mikado ; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations.

The libretto of a musical, if the musical is adapted from a play ( or even a novel ), may even borrow their source's original dialogue liberally-much as Oklahoma!

George and Ira Gershwin, along with DuBose Heyward, based the libretto of their opera version, Porgy and Bess, not on the original novel, but on the play.

In order not to waste all their work, Piave tried to revise the libretto and was even able to pull from it another opera Il Duca di Vendome, in which the sovereign was substituted with a duke and both the hunchback and the curse disappeared.

In his libretto, Jennens's intention was not to dramatise the life and teachings of Jesus, but to acclaim the " Mystery of Godliness ", using a compilation of extracts from the Authorized ( King James ) Version of the Bible, and from the Psalms included with the Book of Common Prayer ( which are worded slightly differently than their King James counterparts ).

Priestley's libretto was based on a legend that " the pagan deities, robbed of their divinity, became a troupe of itinerant players, wandering down the centuries ".

Together in 1910 they started their collaboration on the music for The Sun Dance, an opera for which Zitkala-Sa wrote the libretto and songs.

Since the first published libretto of the ballet and the actual music composed by Tchaikovsky do not correspond in many places, we may infer that the first actual published libretto was possibly crafted by a newspaper writer who had viewed the initial rehearsals, as new productions of operas and ballets were always reported in the newspapers of Imperial Russia, along with their respective scenarios.

The libretto and score were revised: The secondary romance between Tommy Keeler and Winnie Tate was completely eliminated, including their songs " I'll Share it All With You " and " Who Do You Love, I Hope?

* The War of the American Revolution ( January 1893, " nine scenes with historical commentary, written for the ‘ Barnum & Baily people ’, for a libretto to use with their ‘ Vast Episodic Drama of the Revolution ")

Benshi masters were intellectuals: they spoke Japanese, often traveled to Japan and / or China, and were poets writing their own libretto for each film.

" Padula contracted with two writers, and Charles Strouse and Lee Adams wrote seven songs for their libretto.

During this period, they wrote the libretto to Carmen but it was a sideshow to their other work.

He has helped to found Botswana's first centre for opera training, the Number 1 Ladies ' Opera House, for whom he wrote the libretto of their first production, a version ofMacbeth set among a troop of baboons in the Okavango Delta.

He was aesthetically conservative ; he wrote to a friend, " If producers and scenic designers are allowed to continue their writing of graffiti and vulgarity and stupidity on masterpieces … not to mention Chéreau at Bayreuth – we shall be forced to insist that they write the libretto and music to match the rubbish they put on the stage!

Kaufman and Ryskind soon realized that their concept did not provide sufficient plot for a musical and instead crafted a libretto inspired by the timeless battle of political idealism with corruption and incompetency, creating the first American musical with a consistently satiric tone.

Reviews of the opera hint at three additional numbers not in the libretto, but as their names and exact locations are unknown, they are not listed .</ center >

Hérold's desire to compose forced him to choose any libretto that came his way since many librettists did not trust him with their works.

In spite of disagreements and Verdi's need to be constantly correcting Piave's drafts ( to the point where Maffei had a hand in re-writing some scenes of the libretto, especially the witches ' chorus in Act 3 and the sleepwalking scene ), their version follows Shakespeare's play quite closely, but with some changes.

Aroldo is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on and adapted from their earlier 1850 collaboration, Stiffelio.